001So, good evening. Welcome to the Jefferson County Board of Education regular meeting on Monday, June 23rd, 2025. If you'd please join us for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. First up, we have the approval of the minutes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from the regular board meeting held June 9th, 2025? So moved. Thank you, Miss Ogden. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Bratton. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor of the minutes from the meeting held June 9th, 2025, say I. I. Oppose. All right. Thank you. And we don't have any citizens comments this evening. Um, next up is the consent
002agenda. And Miss Luring, are you on here? I think I did see Miss Luring and Miss White both. Is it possible to bump Miss Lauren to a panelist? There we go. Good evening, Mrs. Lauren. Good evening. There we go. Good evening. All right. Are there any changes to the presented consent agenda? No, there are no changes to the agenda that was presented to you tonight for um consideration. All right. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? Thank you, Miss Ogden. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Bratton. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor of the consent agenda as presented, say I oppose. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Hopefully that'll get you some clean up for the end of the year for Yes. Thank you. All right.
003Um, next, we don't have any unfinished business. The next thing under new business is the City of Charles Town walking trail. Um, I know we supported this way back when when they started the project. It's a walking trail going from downtown Charles Town to um, Paige Jackson. And then the next phase would be Paige Jackson to Washington High School. And I believe there's a third phase after that. Um, with this first phase, they did ask for our permission to put some fill dirt um there at the Paige Jackson entrance. They said it's just a small spot that would need the fill dirt, but the Department of Highways asked them to go ahead and um they issued a stop work order until they got permission from the property owners to put the fill dirt. So, um,
004what they're asking is to put some filter since it's a permanent thing, they need permission. Um, so is there a motion to allow the city of Charletown Department of Highways to add some filert there in front of the Page Jackson School um, roadway on Augustine Avenue? So, thank you, Miss Ogden. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Bratton. Is there any discussion? Yeah, just to clarify, the fill dirt is so that they can finish the sidewalk. Is that what the ask is for? It's not a sidewalk. It's a um they're calling it a hike and bike trail, I believe it is, or the Augustine Trail project, but it's a hike and bike trail from that end of town down into downtown Charles Town. And they need to put some field dirt for the um
005elevation of the actual trail itself. Okay. And do we know where they're going to get the field dirt from? Um they're taking care of all of that. We're not doing any of it. We're not financially responsible or anything. So it's all on the the project. Okay. Any other questions? Perfect. Thanks. All right. Hear none. all in favor of um allowing the city of Charlestown Department of Highways to put some field dirt there in front of Paige Jackson Elementary School um for the Augustine Trail project. Say I I opposed. All right. Thank you very much. All right. Board member comments. Miss Bratton, would you like to start this evening? Um yes. I'm sorry. Let me I had something I wanted to um pull up. I'm sorry, it came up quicker than I thought. It's okay second.
006Here we go. So, I want to congratulate um uh Coach Terry Ray um Jr. who coached the North um team in the North South game. The players um that played in that game um Washington the these are seniors. We had Isaiah Osafo Mensah um also known as um Kujo uh Terry Ray III and Michael Thompson. For Jefferson High School, we had Taan Roer and Mar Wallace. Um the North MVP award went to Michael Thompson, the quarterback for Washington. and um both Terry Ray III and Michael Thompson were awarded WVACA scholarships of $1,000. So, congratulations to you all. Also, um congratulations to um any other um teams that we have um had to or or not just teams but students who have um gone to um special events. Um, also would like to um thank home
007team sports for um giving our students um special awards um at their awards ceremony on Friday night. I wasn't able to make it, but I understand it was a really really great event. So, thank you everyone in our community. Miss Ogden, do you have any comments? Uh just bounce off of um what Miss Prattton said. Um just a congratulations and a thank you to home team sports. They um do a really nice job. Um I was at the banquet Friday night and they do. It's incredible the number of athletes that they honored and coaches and um teams and the trophies and plaques and whatnot that they give out. um you know plenty of Jefferson and Washington high school athletes as well like Taan Roer and Hannah Phillips and Lexi Stone and just all different kinds
008of sports and um would just say um a shout out and thanks to my my daughter won 2025 scholar athlete of the year so I was very thankful to them for recognizing a lot of hard work on her part um and Mason Derek won the male um 2025 scholar athlete of the year so he's on his way to the Air Force academy. So, pretty pretty neat stuff that they do and it takes a lot of effort and time. So, thank you to them for for what they do. Some good speeches as well. So, it was a good time. All right. Thank you, Dr. Joy. Do you have any comments? Yeah. Uh, first of all, some people wanted to make a public comment, but when they went to sign up, they discovered that there's a 3pm
009cut off. I don't know if that's just because of today's meeting or if it's the new time, but um I suggested that they um contact Lisa uh tomorrow maybe. Um does anybody know is that a new time? But they I believe that the agenda states that um for comments via Zoom that they please use the following link no later than 3 p.m. the day of the meeting, right? Yeah. I guess it's they're not used to doing um having me online. So anyway, um I I wanted to say that I'm happy to see that we hired uh an Olympic gold medalist as a substitute. So um I guess we're not supposed to name names, but her name's on the agenda for that we approved from last week. I saw this wonderful article in the Shepherd's Town
010Chronicle and I wanted to um just uh note a couple things about it. last week on the 19th we celebrated um Junth and that day commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved African-Ameans in Galveastston, Texas finally learned of their freedom 2 and a half years after emancipation proclamation. It's a day of remembrance, joy, reflection, and a journey that continues. And with that, we're moving into celebrate the 4th of July. And um I wanted to remind uh folks that uh celebrating freedom is not a one-day event. It's an ongoing commitment to ensuring that no one's rights are overlooked and that dignity is extended to all. Um, so happy Junth. That's all comments you'd like to share this evening. Hi. This is Con. Were you talking to me? Yes, sir. Oh my god. like I'm having the
011roughest time on with my I paid my bill. I'm just saying. I'm just having the roughest time logging on. I apologize. You're very broken up. Um the only thing I have to uh uh to share is that um obviously it's and I apologize. I just joined so I don't know what the previous folks uh from the on the board stated but um it's very hot outside. So, I'd ask that uh all Jefferson County schools uh whether you're an educator, whether you're a student, whether you're a parent, whether you're a a family member, uh make sure you stay hydrated and stay out um stay out the heat. Um enjoy the heat, enjoy the summer, but but make sure you uh adhere to the to the rules regarding um the heat advisories. Thank you. I have one
012more thing to add. Um thank you, Mr. Upson for bringing up staying hydrated. I just read that community ministries is asking for donation. Thank you very much. And um there is no executive. Can you hear me? Kathy, I heard you. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, Community Ministries is um asking for donations of cases of water so they can keep our community hydrated. I just read that. So, also I would like to say that Parks and Wreck um they are doing the um uh fireworks show on the 28th. Um I can't remember the time. It might be five or six o'clock, something like that. But um I do know that it's uh June 28th that they are um doing the fireworks show this year. at San Michaels. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. All right. And
013we don't have any executive this session this evening. So 6:15 meeting and thank you every very much. Thank you. Thank you guys. Bye bye. Bye bye.